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peng song/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Russian authorities have given Alexei Navalny’s body back to his mother more than a week after the opposition leader’s death in an Arctic penal colony, according to Navalny’s spokesperson. Spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that a funeral is to come and that they don’t know yet if […]

belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — A Russian military aircraft carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war crashed Wednesday in western Russia’s Belgorod region, Russian officials said. The “captured” Ukrainian soldiers were being transported to the Belgorod region, located along Russia’s border with Ukraine, as part of an “exchange,” according to a statement from the Russian Ministry of […]

Ukrainian rescue and emergency workers attend the site of a missile attack in Kharkiv on Jan. 23, 2024. (Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images) (KYIV, Ukraine) — Air raid sirens sounded in Ukraine’s two largest cities just before dawn on Tuesday, as the Russian military again targeted residential areas with a barrage of missiles, killing five […]